mitosis said:
Kick's a little too loud and overbearing at least on my speakers but if that's what you are going for keep it up. Where are your overheads located? It soudns like they are picking up the toms fine but are missing the cymbals completely. Try to get most of your sound with the overheads and then define the kick and the snare with close micing. Overall I like the tone of the drums and the toms soudn nicely tuned. What cymbals are you using? They seem really low pitched and without much "shimmer". Maybe up the highs in your overheads.
The overheads are about 1' above my cymbals, which are about the same distance above my toms.
The main crash are Meinl Amun 16" Medium and Powerful crashes, which, in person, are very much like you described. I have some brighter crashes on the way.
NegadivOne said:
Wow I actually really love the kick sound. To me it sounds EXACTLY like slipknots. The whole kit kinda sounds like his actually. The only negative things to me were the cymbals sounds a bit too chunky and as already mentioned might need more high end to them or different placement. And also they dont sound bad at all, but the toms seem really dry. Did you use coated heads or muffling on them?
Thanks. I play in a metal band, so my kick has a plastic click pad and a powerdisk. It tends to be a love/hate kind of sound.
The 10x8 and 12x9 toms have Clear Ambassadors on both sides. The 16x13 tom has a Clear Emperor over a Coated Ambassador. The kit is a Pearl SBX.
This is my first time using Clear Ambassador batters. Coated Ambassadors seemed much more lively.
mitosis said:
Drums are Pearl SBX.
10x8
12x9
16x13
22x18
14x6.5 Snare
10x5 Steel Snare
Cymbals from left to right from behind the kit:
10" Meinl Byzance Splash
14" Meinl Amun Dry Hats
16" Meinl Amun Medium Crash (This is the dark, low pitched crash.)
16" Meinl Amun Powerful Crash
8"
Meinl Byzance Splach
18" Meinl Amun China
18" Byzance Medium-Thin Crash
21"
Sabian HH Raw Bell Dry Ride
drossfile said:
sounds pretty frigging incredible overall. the kick is a little too artificial and loud--kinda reminds me of my SR16. otherwise, well done. i have to ask--natural reverb or added? i can't tell if it's mp3 compression or a dsp that gives it a slightly noticable digitized feel. either way, works for me. i think if the kick was tamed down, the cymbals would shine more--their tone is fine imo.
There is no added reverb, but I am using some light compression, which accentuated the natural reverb.
Thanks everyone for all of your comments so-far. They've been quite helpful.